Wimpy Kid Balloon!

For the first time this year, a balloon of book character Greg Heffley will come down 5th Avenue in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!  Do you want to see it in person?  The publisher is running a contest in which you could win VIP grandstand seats for the parade!  (The only catch is that you have to be between the ages of 6 and 16 to win.  Darn!)

Book Characters Unite!

Last Friday night, 14 people came to the Teen Advisory Board's book character potluck party. It was great to see everyon'e costumes! We did literary Mad-Libs, a classic children's literature trivia race, and heard readings about several people's characters. We watched movie clips from The Princess Bride (yes, it was a book first) and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

We also ate great food provided by you! Thanks to everyone who brought something to represent their character. We had red juice (Katie), hoagies (Maria), "rat" (Kara), veggies (Gretchen), a lemon meringue pie (Caitlin), duplex cookies (Genni), garlic pasta (Marissa), and fruit salad (Micah). It was hilarious!

Can you figure out who came as a character from...

• Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• The Blue Avenger by Norma Howe
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann Brashares
• Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
• Bunnicula by James Howe
• A Great and Terrible Beauty series by Libba Bray
• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
• Vampire Kisses series by Ellen Schreiber
• Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy